New Heavy Gear 2 Experience (Texture Mod)

[albertx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daycpmqgBVg

Play this game instead of this broken game. For now at least.

[(.)(.)]

I hate todays games. Look at at what we use have.

From OG
Rainbow 6/Ghost Recon
Swat
Heavy Gear
Command and Conqure
NOLF
Perfect Dark
Metal Gear
Quake
Wolf


I could go on. Its a weird thing to hate and be hated by something you loved so much.

[albertx]

Originally posted by (.)(.):

I hate todays games. Look at at what we use have.

From OG
Rainbow 6/Ghost Recon
Swat
Heavy Gear
Command and Conqure
NOLF
Perfect Dark
Metal Gear
Quake
Wolf


I could go on. Its a weird thing to hate and be hated by something you loved so much.

You forgt these :)

Diablo Immortal
Alien Blackout
Fallout 76
Star Wars Battlefront EA
Need for Speed
Battlefield V (Uneducated ver)
Dragon Age
Mass Effect Andromeda
The Elder Scroll (VI)

These franchises are our chilhood and being destroyed by greed or irresponsible.

[Fragtastic]

Is anyone still here? I'd love to get some help with Heavy Gear 2. I have the game running. I have installed all the required files from dgVoodoo2 and so on. No matter what I try, the game is always in 640*480 mode and I can't enter the Graphics menu in-game without it looking like the screen's corrupted. I have to guess my way out by randomly clicking and pressing Esc. I can play the game without any issues except that, it is in low res mode.

[(.)(.)]

Originally posted by Fragtastic:

Is anyone still here? I'd love to get some help with Heavy Gear 2. I have the game running. I have installed all the required files from dgVoodoo2 and so on. No matter what I try, the game is always in 640*480 mode and I can't enter the Graphics menu in-game without it looking like the screen's corrupted. I have to guess my way out by randomly clicking and pressing Esc. I can play the game without any issues except that, it is in low res mode.

dgVoodoo should let you set the desired resolution in it ui.

You could try this - Culling Fix

https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/355-heavy-gear-ii-culling-fix/

Instructions on how to use culling :
https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/heavy_gear_2_culling_fix/page1

and or

https://www.patches-scrolls.de/search/node/Heavy%20gear


Read through this thread, there might be something useful in here:
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/heavy_gear_ii_for_win_10

[Fragtastic]

That's the thing. I've installed them all. I've changed the screen res in the dgVooDoo ui and still, the game is in 640*480.

The Microsoft Compatibility Toolkit isn't there anymore.

I've tried all of those fixes. The game runs. I can play any mission. I've just completed the first zero-G mission and travelled to Caprice. All of that works but I can't go into the Graphics menu without the game looking like it crapped itself.

[(.)(.)]

Edit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20161107015735/http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~dank/hg2fix.html#32bit

My screen can do 1024x760, but HG2 only lets me play at 640x480

You probably have your screen set for 32 bits per pixel (millions of colors). Set it for 16 bits per pixel (thousands of colors), and all should be well. You do this in the Windows control panel under Display / Settings.




There might be an ini file or config file that is readable with notepad where you can change all the settings simply by editing the config file and saving it.

It will either be in the games install folder somewhere, my documents or AppData in either local or Roaming.

If youre not already aware, youll need to turn on 'show hidden files and folders' before you can see the AppData folder. TO do this click on "view" at the top of a folder/windows explorer and tick 'Hidden Items'. Tick 'File name extensions' while youre at it.

I dont have a copy of HG2 atm, so i cant walk through it with you, only offer the usual problem solving steps that tend to work 99% of the time.


You could also try this (ive no idea how to use it myself) DxWnd
https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/d5d0fc08ae/



Other that, considering dual booting with Windows 7.

[Fragtastic]

I found a file called "Options.cfg" in the Texts folder inside Heavy Gear 2 -> Shell folder. I changed the resolution there as well as the colour depth and still nothing. I set the file to "Read Only" just in case the game was defaulting it back to the original settings but nope, didn't help.

[Fragtastic]

Ok, here's what I did. I uninstalled the game, ran the installer under Win 95 compatibility mode ('cause that's the .exe compatibility as well to make the videos play for me) and tried everything again. dgVoodoo2 now works and I can play at higher resolutions. It is great.

On a negative note, the mouse is very slow and janky in the menus and I still can't access the in-game Graphics menu without the game looking like it puked pink baby food.

Nonetheless, I can now play the game in HD. Unfortunately, I only have 6 or so missions to go in the main campaign. Guess I'll revisit HG2 in the future once my current playthrough is done and do it the whole thing again in a Dark Mamba or a Dark Jaguar along with all of the Historical missions.

Cheers for your time and all of the links you provided.

[(.)(.)]

No worries Gearhead. Hopefully one day well get our long awaited fully fleshed out HG game. One day.

Did you ever see TV series for HG?

I play alot of these older games myself that require finicky fixes, so feel free to add me as a steam friend in case youve other questions for similar titles as I may just have what you need or where to get it.

Enjoy.

Edit: An older game I play (swat 3, checkout videos as per the AI in that game from 99) also uses DgVoodoo as 1 of the many things get it running and one of the issues is a laggy cursor like you mentioned with HG2.

Try this - Also applies to Win 10

1. On Windows 7, go to the Windows mouse control panel (Control Panel>Hardware&Sound>Devices&Printers>Mouse)

2. Go to "Pointer Options" tab and uncheck "Enhance Pointer Precision"

credit: rapsodiaverde
https://www.gog.com/forum/silver/mouse_lagwierd_movment


I think and only going by Swat 3 using the Last Resort mod to select HD resolutions, the issue is that when playing in anything above sub hd resolutions, the menu textures and fonts get rendered at that resolution also.

The problem this creates is that the texture format/file types of the time or their versions at that time, are not optimised for HD+ resolutions leading to lower fps in the menus and even in game when text/UI appears (as with Swat 3).

The Swat 3 Last resort mod allows separate rendering of 3d and text/menu textures to prevent this from being an issue. 3d can be set to 4k, but the font or 2d elements would be set to something like 800x600 (an example - https://youtu.be/2Ew4iZOkK7c?t=123)


Perhaps there is a 2d/font size option within that config file you found?

[Fragtastic]

Hey, thanks. I completed the Gamorrah mission and now have to sneak into the Vega Spaceport.

As far as older games go, I've installed MW4 Vengeance and all of its expansions (Black Knight, IS and Clan Packs) as well as MW4 Mercs. I'm currently playing through Vengeance and have reached the desert map.

Not sure if you play Mechwarrior Online but I do and there's an option to unlock your mech's arms so that you don't experience the "lazy mouse" movement but since there's no such option in Vengeance, it's pretty hard to get used to that janky torso movement.

I was a big fan of the Rainbow 6 games up until Raven Shield. Then, it became less tactical and more shooty-shooty. I've never played SWAT3. I'll check it out. Looks interesting.